Pit Stop Report

It seems that comments made last month by the late Dale Earnhardt Sr’s wife, Teresa, could have detrimental effects on that race team. Teresa was quoted in the Dec. 14 edition of the Wall Street Journal as follows, “Right now the ball’s in his court to decide on whether he wants to be a NASCAR driver or whether he wants to be a public personality,”

Junior had held his comments up until Monday’s press conference at the opening of preseason testing at Daytona International Speedway were he said, “I was trying not to get involved in it, (but) I really didn’t appreciate it,” he said. “Whether she was taken out of context or not, I just didn’t really appreciate it.” Earnhardt Jr. also stated that he had not talked to his step-mother since she had made that comment.

With dialogue like that and with Junior’s contract with DEI ending at the end of the 2007 season, we may see Dale Jr. with a different team next year. It would be hard to imagine, but I do not blame him a bit. Negotiations for his last contract were stalemated by Junior’s want for less personal apperances and took months for them to agree on an acceptable number.

Now this contract may end up getting caught up in Junior’s want to be part owner of the company his father started and I do not see Teresa Earnhardt relenquishing any of DEI to anybody, anytime soon.

Well, if I was Dale Jr I would tell Teresa to cancel all of my personal apperances and I will be a NASCAR driver. Then she can she how many sponsors such as Budweiser and Wrangler stick around to pay her bills. We will have to see what the out come of this we be and only hope that somebody wakes up and smells the roses and keeps Dale Earnhardt Jr. at DEI, Inc.

Till the next Pit Stop…..

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